Lin-Manuel Miranda's The Hamilton Mixtape comes out December 2nd. Today, he released three songs from the 23-track project: "Satisfied," by Sia, Miguel, and Queen Latifah, "My Shot" by The Roots, Joell Ortiz and Busta Rhymes, and "Immigrants (We Get The Job Done)," by Snow tha Product, K'naan, Residente, and Riz MC.
These four rappers' families hail from Mexico, Somalia, Puerto Rico, and Pakistan, respectively. Before enacting his controversial immigration poicy President-elect Trump ought to listen to what they have to say: immigrants are "America's ghostwriters."
Miranda did a great job of balancing mainstream and underground rappers on The Hamilton Mixtape. Check out the tracklist here and pre-order it here.
Quotable Lyrics
It’s a hard line when you’re an import
Baby boy it's hard times
When you ain't sent for
Racist feed the belly of the beast
With they pitchforks, rich chores
Done by the people that get ignored
- Snow